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The Russian blockade and bombardments are cutting off thousands of tons of grain, threatening the food supply in countries that rely on wheat exports. https://media.wired.com/photos/632235fcc4d3ebc9237bc5c6/master/pass/Satellite-Images-Reveal-Scale-of-Russian-Grain-Blockades-Business-1241878175.jpg
Enlarge / Artist’s impression of low Earth-orbit satellites like those launched by SpaceX and OneWeb. (credit: NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / P. Marenfeld) The Federal Communications Commission has a plan to minimize space junk by requiring low Earth orbit (LEO) satellites to be disposed no more than five years after being taken out of […]
Apple has unveiled its new iPhone 14 lineup, and while the phones mainly feature the usual slate of annual upgrades such as camera and performance improvements, this year’s iPhone models also packed in some exciting and valuable new personal safety features. Perhaps the most interesting of these is Emergency SOS via satellite, a new feature that […]
With more than 60 satellites jammed in for the ride, a Falcon 9 rocket will get used a third time, fulfilling one of Elon Musk’s standing promises. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c01cacc5ff19e734004a21d/master/pass/SSOA_CubesatDeploys-1024×575.jpg
As scheduled, at 10 AM local time on December 1st Japanese TV networks began publicly broadcasting 4K and 8K channels via satellite. Even after a couple of years of testing, NHK is currently the only one pushing content at 8K with 22.2 channel sound. The first movie listed in its TV guide is 2001: A […]
Enlarge / A Falcon 9 rocket launches in September 2018. (credit: SpaceX) The first satellite launched into orbit, Sputnik, launched from a spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Central Asian country was then a Soviet republic. Later, the first human to fly into space, Yuri Gagarin, also launched from Kazakhstan. Today, despite its independence, this spaceport […]
A video shows a Soyuz-2-1b rocket successfully blasting off into space from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northwest Russia as it delivered a navigation satellite into orbit. The launch was conducted on Saturday night. The rocket was equipped with upper stage Fregat, which propelled a GLONASS-M satellite into orbit. The satellite is part of Russian national […]
China’s young private spaceflight industry has enjoyed some success, but it’s still facing setbacks. The first private attempt at a satellite launch failed on October 27th when the third stage of LandSpace’s Zhuque-1 rocket didn’t reach orbit. It’s not certain what led to the failure. However, the vehicle was carrying a commercial satellite for the […]
Enlarge / SpaceX launched a similar satellite, Telstar 19 Vantage, in July of this year. (credit: SpaceX) 12:55am ET Monday Update: A little more than an hour after its launch window opened—the delay was due to remnant thunderstorms in the area—SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Florida early on Monday morning. The rocket’s first stage […]
NASA has made its raw satellite data widely available for a long while. Now that it has a privatization-minded leader, though, it’s looking to make that data more palatable for the business crowd. The administration has released a Remote Sensing Toolkit that should make it easier to use observational satellite info for commercial purposes, including […]
